On Wed, 28 Nov 2012 10:37:49 +0000 Darac Marjal <mailingl...@darac.org.uk> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 03:55:16PM +0530, J. B wrote: > > > > Hello list, > > > > My box is configured to the local time zone from beginning, both hwclock > > and system time. > > But linux always favor hwclock to UTC. What is the advantage of doing that ? > > > > If I need my hwclock to UTC then what should be the right way to do that ? > > I have followed "dpkg-reconfigure tzdata" and found it has changed the > > local time to > > UTC too. Confused ..... > > The problem is that the hardware clock doesn't store a timezone, so when > it reports the time as 10:32, is that 10:32 in your current time zone, > or 10:32 in a standardized time zone (i.e. UTC) or... > > Which you choose doesn't really make much difference, so long as all > OSes that update the hwclock agree on what it's set to. You can agree to > keep it in UTC-5 if you like, even if that's NOT your local time zone, > just so long as you tell your system to apply the correct offset when > reading/writing it. > > The main issue comes when you're dual-booting with Windows. By default, > that assumes the hwclock reads local time. If Linux thinks it should be > UTC, then you're going to see odd time jumps as you switch between them. > > Hope that clarifies things. Thanks for the points. This box doesn't have any window system. So please advise how can I set hwclock and localtime. Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20121128161828.3f87d...@shiva.selfip.org
